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THIS is not an ordinary book of travels. It has been written mainly for the purpose of calling attention to such phenomena of the sky and weather as Mr. Abercromby has observed in various parts of the world. The opening chapter describes the author's experiences in Canada and the United States in the year 1865. Then he gives an account of a voyage round the world, beginning with what he saw in Egypt, and passing on to descriptions relating to Australia, New. Caledonia, Fiji, New Zealand, Cape Horn, and Rio Janeiro. Mr. Abercromby next takes his readers within the Arctic Circle, and afterwards he tells of a long journey, in the course of which he was at the Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, Ceylon, the Himalayas, Borneo, Manilla, San Francisco, and Washington. He by no means confines his narrative to matters specially attractive to meteorologists. He takes interest in many different classes of subjects, and has something more or less memorable to record about almost all the places he has visited. It is, however, meteorology that he keeps chiefly in view, and we need scarcely say that on this subject, which he has so long and carefully studied, his book is always fresh and instructive. The value of the work is increased by good maps and illustrations.
Seas and Skies in Many Latitudes.
By the Hon. Ralph Abercromby. (London: Edward Stanford, 1888.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 39, 247 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039247c0
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